HM3: Enter the Haberdasher

I’m going to start working on Headgear today, so let me know any specific requests you have in the comments. If you’ve made suggestions about Headgear items before in other posts, please re-submit them here if you don’t mind; it’s hard to go back through the old stuff and pick out onesie-twosie requests.

And yes, I’ll be including every current HeroMachine 2 Headgear item, so you can skip those.

HM3’s Headgear slot will include at least sets for Standard, Helmets, Masks, and Glasses. If you think of other big groups of headgear-related items that deserve to have their own set, let me know that too.

I would really appreciate it if you could expand on the “Aliens” slot. You know, lots of different heads that still allow you to change the face and facial hair around. Here are some examples of things I would really love to see:
-Klingon-esque forehead
-Ki-Adi Mundi “conehead”
-Gem-Hadar (DS9) Boney-spikey forehead ridges, kind of like the dinosaur men from “Land of the lost”.
-V-shaped forehead ridge
-Plo-Koon mask, also a head shaped like his with funny ears.
-Skrull Chin
-Darth Maul Horns
-Lots of Face Tattoo options with changeable colors(Darth Maul, Runes, stars, fire, etc.)
-Jaw-line with bone-spikes
-Cardassian head (DS9)
-More Tentacles/dreadlocks
-More Horn options

I’m definitely looking forward to and expanded and improved “Animals” section myself. I have a lot of half-animal characters I’d like to create, and even with PhotoShopping I can only get so far with the 2.5 selections. Especially with the older-style black shading lines…

definitly more horns i second that. a variety of skull helmets would be cool aand… wait i have to search the artwork…http://www.g-unleashed.com/files/16_aw_cj3.jpg this mask
and more hats aaand more pirate-style hats and musketeer hats and feathers for the hats (seperated)

Some random ideas: Head/face bandages (eg, loose straps of cloth bound around the characters head, not the entire face concealed), various forms of antennae, a few different types of horns, spiky reptillian fins, comedy/tragedy muse masks, more spandex mask options, a better jester cap, feathers and plumes to be attached to hats and knight helms, halos and energy-like crowns, er… thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Whatever you can manage to get to will be great, Jeff. Don’t work yourself to death.

Here are some more ideas:
-Angelic Warrior helmets (With Wings, jewels, etc.)
-Demonic Warrior Helmets (With Horns, skulls, jewels, etc)
-Facial Scars
-Lots of robotic/cyborg facial options. It would be great to be able to choose to make all/half/part of a head a robotic. Things like Eye implants, mouth/nose masks, etc.
-Twi-Lek like head (2 Tentacles)
-Nautolan like head (Many tentacles, like Kit Fisto)
-Reptilian Heads, with bone Spikes & Ridges, still able to change eyes and mouth (Like Jem’Hadar -ST DS9)

Probably more fit for the Hair section, but playing around with HM3, I will often put the longer hair on the plane behind the head so it doesn’t cover the face. A hairpiece that is shaped like a widow’s peak, but that is only on the very top of the head, would be great so I can put long hair behind the head without making it look strange. Right now I have to use 2 tiny mirrored mohawks.

As I started on this, the first two items in the old HM2 “Headgear-Standard” set are animal heads. So I did those and then thought “I have a whole separate ‘Head’ slot now, really these ought to go there”. So now I am working on the new HeadAnimals set. Go figure. If you have any animals you desperately want to see represented, let me know.

I think the ideas others have posted are good, however, I would also like to suggest simple cloth items, like maybe one of those bandannas that covers the top of your head and is tied in the back, like the kind certain pirates wear. Maybe some metal skull caps w/ accessories like horns and chainmail, a turban, etc. General fantasy stuff. And, I know someone’s already mentioned this, but I would also like steampunk stuff.

It has probably already been stated, just a little to lazy to check all the posts today, but is there any way to do a more terminator style head/mask/parts like a half burned/shredded face showing the mechanical parts underneath ( like in terminator 2 )

i also agree with more animal heads, obviously a wolfs head, maybe a cats head or maybe a head like the lycans have in the underworld movies.

I know this is a bunch of extra work, but could we get animal heads in parts? Useful if you’re doing a hybrid so you can determine just how much is animal and how much is human. Also, many animal parts are just useful for other purposes (um, parts of a skull instead of just one solid piece is very useful, just as an example, and that’s a bigger stretch than this is.)

Items I just realized aren’t in the current sets, but should be IMHO:

The big scaled chest piece in HM2.5 isn’t there. (the one that the green and grey example guy on the main page uses)

You have boot and glove pieces with whicked blades and such coming off of them (army of darkness style) but no matching chestpiece, which I would love to see.

Lastly, this isn’t a request, just a question. The Zombie stuff is pretty useful when you’re making a monster, but the scale of that artwork doesn’t mesh with the artwork you’re pumping out currently. Not a major deal, it can be adjusted with the features HM3 supports. Is there any plans to rescale the old stuff just to save us some work? (AFTER you finish with all the artwork that needs done, of course. We got our priorities strait, after all)

* as i commented before, this version is not yet superheroine-friendly. i’m sure you’ll get there soon enough, so herw’s some suggestions for headgear + other stuff.
* powergirl-like cleavage.
* expanding breast option.
* girly beauty-pageant coronas of all sorts
* scarlet witch headgear
* armored bra
* fur-lined viking-like bra
* the goggles-worn-on the forehead are ordinary goggles – a mad scientist combat tank driver may want both to look proffesional and show off his blue eyes. you already have one in your tech set, but only one, and it’s really limiting.

* plane pilot headgear
* egyptian pharoh sphinx headgear
* apolo 11 like astronaut headgear
* victorian and late 19th century hats (sherlock and friends)
* headgear like that wizard guy from young avengers – forgot his name, but he uses asgardian magic and he has a metal helmet that’s open on top – like gambit, only metal.
* punkist stuff

If possible, I was thinking, have just the blank mask in headgear and put the happy and sad eyes in “eyes”, happy and sad eyebrows in “eyebrows”, and the happy and sad mouths in mouths so people could customize one.

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